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- From: Bernard Lang <Bernard.Lang@inria.fr>
- To: Sylvain Perchaud <sylvain@europe-shareware.org>, Brevets <patents@aful.org>
- Subject: Re: [Patents] article from Cringely
- Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 16:03:35 +0100
One mistake in this article: the first flight in a man powered craft
was 6 years earlier (1897) by the Frenchman Clement Ader.
But, afaik, Ader was flying in a straight line, while the Wright
brothers had a plane that could be manouvered to take turns.
6 more years previously (18991), the German Otto Lilienthal had been
flying unpowered aircrafts.
http://www.lilienthal-museum.de/olma/ehome.htm
I have no idea whether they patented anything.
Bernard
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 01:47:12PM +0100, Sylvain Perchaud wrote:
> Here's a diverting article from Robert Cringely on software patents.
> It shows that software patents are at best useless for SMEs and individuals.
>
> "Patently absurd"
> <http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20031218.html>
>
> --
> Sylvain Perchaud
> Tel : +33 (0) 674 758 551
> http://www.europe-shareware.org
>
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